The Nicholas Green Foundation

The Gift of Life

The Nicholas Effect

A seven year-old boy from California, Nicholas Green, was killed by highway robbers in 1994 while vacationing in Italy with his family. His parents agreed to donate his organs and corneas, which went to seven Italians waiting for transplants. Reg and Maggie Green spoke openly to the media, with no bitterness, about their loss and decision. The world took the story--and the Greens--to its heart. Organ donations in Italy have tripled since Nicholas was killed so that thousands of people are alive who would have died.

Contact

➤ LOCATION

The Nicholas Green Foundation5701 Alder Ridge DrLa Cañada, CA 91011

☎ CONTACT

rfdgreen@gmail.com(818) 952-2095

An Open Letter

After taking me to dinner at the famous Cesarina restaurant in Rome the other night – once the second home of Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni – my host, a renowned transplant surgeon, told the maitre d' that I was the father of an American boy who was shot in an attempted carjacking on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria autostrada and whose organs were donated to seven Italians, four of them teenagers. "Ah, Nicholas Green," came the reply and as we shook hands I saw tears in his eyes.